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• Brasileiros (in Portuguese) and The Loop join coverage of new research whose authors, Michel Laroche, marketing professor at the John Molson School of Business, and HEC marketing professor Marcelo Nepomuceno, conclude that compulsive shoppers' impulse to spend can be spurred by world news of death. The research was published in The Journal of Consumer Affairs.
• Top Santé reports on a study of student performance, led by Erin Barker, assistant professor of psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science and member of the Centre for Research in Human Development (CRDH). Barker, working with Department of Psychology colleague, professor Carsten Wrosch, determined that occasional negative moods can impact positively on a person's performance at school. 
• Huffington Post Québec picks up an article about the recently-launched book, The Global Impact of Religious Violence (Wipf and Stock, 2016), co-edited by André Gagné, associate professor of theology in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Gagné is quoted. The book examines the role of religion in extremist violence through a collection of essays by Concordia graduate students.
• Netscape.com posts a story describing a recent Concordia study, led by PERFORM Centre researcher Jason Steffener, that shows how education and simple physical activity such as taking the stairs can significantly slow the rate of ageing of the brain. The study findings were published in Neurobiology of Aging.

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